New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-07-10
JUBILEE NOTES
svrrH SOME PATHETIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT
pEFRI, THE QUEENs ROYAL GUESTA

,r,,o,s -rr REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THg rnzsUNHj
VIZ" LONDON, june 29; ,
Mr.. Harry Furniss In this weeks "Punch@
has a good nstured caricature Of the Lord Cham
beriain headed well Earned Repose' LORD
sLatbom is yawning on the edge Of the bed he
Is nearly ready to enter and exclaim My last
sovereign gone Now l want little change.
aIis last sovereign is not yet gone, hardly any
body Is gone and Lord Lafhom must wait while
before he can 'go to bed for fortnight No
more arduous task than his has of late fallen
upon any mortal The Lord Cbamberlain's func-
tons are always delicate, sometimes difieult ;
never before SO delicate or diilicult rs IN these
Jubilee days do not pretend to definc the duues
q his great office, or to distinguish between
those which devolve on him and on the Loru
steward the Earl Of Mount Edgecumbe, or other
officers of the Royal Household. HE luke VI
Portland, for example, who Is Master Oh 'ne
Horse, was responsible for tho turnout VI
horses and carriages in the Royal PROCESSION on
Jubilee Day. The Lord Chamberlain was IT.
sponsibIe for the Abbey arrangements NO ono
man Is rcsponsbI e for everything, and the burden
has been heavy enough when distributed There
is this to be said, however, that the pageantry
and state appertaining to the celebration OF Her
Maiesty's Jubilee have been well rendered through
out In all or almost all matters which came
under the public eye, there has been no mistake
of importance; there has been completeness
of intelligent organization most credltabie 10 all
concerned The Lord Chamberlain's oiiice has a
trained permanent staff who get their share Oh
the honor. Sir Spencer Ponsonby-Fane Is Think
the head of this staff. Mr. TrendeIl, G. III. IT,,
is one of its most efficient members.
Beneath this smoothly polished and ghttering
surface there has been nevertheless certain
amount of friction. 1t is impossible there should
not have been. The situation was perfectiy
novel Her Majesty's guests from abroad num-
bered not less than iorty-three persons oil Oh
them Kings or Queens, or Princes and frlncesses'
or Imperial IiighnesseS or Hereditary Grand
Dukes and Duchesses, or something equally mag
nifcent 1t would pass the wit of man TO give
10 each and ali OF these superior personages at
each critical moment of their stay his or her pre-
else position OF Of the precise degree Of delerenial
distinction which each might consider to be
his or her due. There have been mistakes, there
have been heartburnings, once or twice there
came near being scene; once there actually
was something that might be called scene
which L Will mention presently. As for the
actual order Of precedence between these highly
titled mortas, that is settled. Not all the highly
titled ones, 1 have been told, acquiesce in the
settlement but the Queen herself drew up the
list and she drew 1T up it appears almost
daily in the court circular. these Hast TWO
words do not signify the name of newspaper.
There is newspaper by that name, but the court
circular in this is simply daily record
OF the doings of the court prepared by a court
Official revised and edited by the Queen and sent
out for publication in the general press. The
Irince and Princess of Wales have court
circular of their own dating from Marlborough
House In ordinary times a paragraph or two
sufces for such account as Queen and Prince
desire to be made known. Now it stretches
to two three columns.
Such friction as there has been seems to have
arisen in most cases from a want of harmony
between continental and English notions Of ETH
guette. The continental theory of these high
matters is the more strict and straight of the
two, and the axlty ON some points here prevailing
has been sharply criticised by the foreigners.
But this difference was not the cause Of the most
appalling of all the little social carastrophes which
occurred This at the State Banquet given
by the Queen in st. Georges Hall at Windsor
Castle on Saturday evening. Surely there If
anywhere and then If ever 1t might have been
supposed that things would have been rightly
ordered. The Queen received her royal
guests in the utmost state. ST. Georges Hall
was opened for, think, the first time since
the death Of the Prince Consort- The scene Is
described by some of those who were present
the most dazzling Of the many that the last
week has witnessed. Yet some of the Queens
guests-it is almost too dreadful to relate in
print-went in to dinner in the wrong order,
and sat at table out of their proper places
Let one instance suffice The future King of
Bavaria Prince Ludwig, found himself some half
dozen places below the Ambassador of Austria
Hungary, who was know not how many degrees
higher in the social scale than he ought to
have been How he got there do not undertake
to explain, but there he was and the outraged
Majesty OF Bavaria had to be appeased with
after dinner apologies from the regrctful Majesty
of Great Britain itself. Time was when lesser
offences have brought on war between great
states. This time, happily, there viii be no war.
S, oh mIsadventures might have been avoided by
q clever Master Of the Ceremonies or even by the
simple expcdient, sometimes practised in high So
ciety, of putting names by the plates and sending
guests in to dinner by roll call But Kings
and Princes are supposed to know their places
without being told, Ambassadors, and so
perhaps did on this occasion the too ambitious
Count karolyi. But the Ambassadors present are
said to have been grieved because their wives
had not been asked.
Ambassadors indeed are persons of suscepti-
bilities that require much soothing. Their SEN
slDllltleS were ruined AT the Royal Ball gwen az
Buckingham Palace last Friday-that ball to
which ali the Queens royal guests were hidden,
but winch the Queen herself did not attend. 1t
has always been the custom to reserve certain
seats ut the upper end of the room for the
diplomatic body and their wives 1t became neces-
Bary on Friday to assign these places
to those In attendance upon the roy
alties, and lower seats were reserved for
the diplomatists The official responsible for
this change forgot to explain it or TO make known
to the incoming Ambassadors that other quarters
had been provided for them. Result, alarm and
anger among them, and presently a procession of
distressed diplomatists was organized and they
solemnly marched out Of the room. Their de-
parture was observed, CONSERVATION reigned for a
then Sir Francis Seymour-he is the